Yi-Fang Tsay is a Taiwanese botanist. She is a distinguished research fellow at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica.
For high school she attended Taipei First Girls' High School. She received her bachelor's and master's degree from Department of Botany, National Taiwan University. In 1990 she completed her PhD in biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. [1]
She is a distinguished research fellow at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica. [2] [3] She is best known for her work on nitrate transport, signaling and utilization efficiency in plants. [2]
She is a recipient of the Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science Award. [4]
In 2021 she was elected to the American National Academy of Sciences. [2]
National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) is a public research university in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It was first founded in Beijing. After the Chinese Civil War, president Mei Yiqi and other academics fled with the retreating Nationalist government to Taiwan, where they founded National Tsing Hua University in 1956. The university remains independent and distinct from Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Academia Sinica is the national academy of the Republic of China (Taiwan). It is headquartered in Nangang, Taipei.
Chi-Huey Wong is a Taiwanese-American biochemist. He is currently the Scripps Family Chair Professor at the Scripps Research Institute. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, as awarded the 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry and 2015 RSC Robert Robinson Award. Wong is also the holder of more than 100 patents and publisher of 700 more scholarly academic research papers under his name.
Carl Wu is a Chinese-American scientist, and a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of biology, molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University. He is active in the fields of chromatin and gene expression.
Robert Tjian is a Hong Kong-born American biochemist best known for his work on eukaryotic transcription. He is currently professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). On April 1, 2009, Tjian became the President of HHMI. On August 4, 2015, he announced that he would step down as President at the end of 2016.
Nai-Chang Yeh is a Taiwanese-American physicist specializing in experimental condensed matter physics.
Der-Tsai Lee, also known as D. T. Lee, is a Taiwanese computer scientist, known for his work in computational geometry. For many years he was a professor at Northwestern University. He has been a distinguished research fellow of the Institute for Information Science at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan since 1998. From 1998 to 2008, he was director of this institute. He had been the 14th President of National Chung Hsing University from August 1, 2011 to Jul 31, 2015. More than in academia, he had been an advisory committee member of National Security Council (Taiwan) from 2016 to 2020. Currently, he has been the chairman of Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan since 2020.
Chien-Fu Jeff Wu is a Taiwanese-American statistician. He is the Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for his work on the convergence of the EM algorithm, resampling methods such as the bootstrap and jackknife, and industrial statistics, including design of experiments, and robust parameter design.
C. Y. Cyrus Chu is a Taiwanese economist and politician. He holds a Bachelor of Law from National Taiwan University (1978) and PhD in economics from the University of Michigan (1985). He joined the Department of Business Administration and Economics at National Taiwan University thereafter and was promoted to Professor in 1989. He has published 2 monographs on demography and family economics, respectively, both published by Oxford University Press, and more than 100 professional articles in journals including American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy. He was Vice President of Academia Sinica (2000–2003) and Chairman of Board at Chung-Hwa Institution for Economic Research (2008-2011), and has been a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica since 2000. He was elected as an Academician of Academia Sinica (1998), a Member of The World Academy of Sciences (2010), Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States (2017). He recently joined the WID team of Thomas Piketty, analysing the taxation and wealth-registration individual data of Taiwan. From 2011 to 2019, he served as Minister without Portfolio, supervising science and technology, then Minister of National Science Council of Executive Yuan of Republic of China (Taiwan), then Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu to the World Trade Organization in Geneva.
Andrew Wang or Wang Hui-jun, usually cited as Andrew H. J. Wang, is a Taiwanese biochemist who had served as the vice president of Academia Sinica from 2006 to 2011 and from 2015 to 2016.
Kuo-Fong Ma is a Taiwanese seismologist. She is primarily known for research conducted on the Chelungpu Fault, the cause of one of the most devastating earthquakes in Taiwan, the 1999 Jiji earthquake.
Kuan Wang is a Taiwanese biochemist whose contributions to muscle biochemistry and cell biology have garnered more than 10,000 citations with an h-index of 54. After receiving a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Taiwan National University, he came to the United States for graduate study and earned a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University under the guidance of Frederic M. Richards. He was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow (1974–1976) at the University of California, San Diego, in the laboratory of S. J. Singer. In 1977 he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin as assistant professor. During his early years at UT, Wang and his co-workers discovered two previously unrecognized high molecular weight proteins of myofibrils, Titin and Nebulin, which fundamentally changed our understanding of muscle sarcomeres.
NDHU College of Science and Engineering is an interdisciplinary school of science and engineering of National Dong Hwa University. Established in 1995, NDHU CSAE was founded with Hsia Yu-Ping, the Chair Professor of Yale University and California Institute of Technology, as Founding Dean, which is the second interdisciplinary school of Science and Engineering in Taiwan.
Tang K. Tang is a Taiwanese biomedical researcher who is currently the vice president of the Academia Sinica.
Yu-Ju Chen is a Taiwanese proteomics research scientist, who leads international projects in proteogenomics.
Yu Su-may is a Taiwanese plant pathologist.
Cheng Soo-chen is a Taiwanese biochemist.
Liu Shaw-chen is a Taiwanese atmospheric scientist.
Chiang Ann-shyn is a Taiwanese entomologist and neuroscientist.